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LIVERPOOL
Most Famous People Born in Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Notable people
- 2,322
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1946
- Most distinctive
- Comedian 7.9×
A port city that exports footballers and music in roughly equal measure. Roughly a third of Liverpool's notable births play professional football, and most of the rest are guitarists, bassists, drummers, comedians, or boxers — the four export industries of a working-class English coastal town. There's almost no aristocracy here and almost no academy; the city's fame comes out of clubs and pubs and the docks.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Liverpool during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Liverpool Is Known For
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Football is Liverpool's biggest profession — 32% of all notables (738).
Liverpool over-indexes on comedian — 7.9× the global rate.
Liverpool under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Liverpool's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Filtered to 1830s Clear ×
William Stanley Jevons
1835 - 1882
Alfred Waterhouse
1830 - 1905
James Maybrick
1838 - 1889
Charles William Wilson
1836 - 1905
Charles Santley
1834 - 1922
Catherine Walters
1839 - 1920
Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling
1832 - 1911
John Knox Laughton
1830 - 1915
Alfred William Hunt
1830 - 1896
Henry Yates Thompson
1838 - 1928
John Houlding
1833 - 1902
Charles Wyndham (actor)
1837 - 1919
William Bell (photographer)
1830 - 1910
Isabelle de Steiger
1836 - 1927
Mrs. John Wood
1831 - 1915
Richard Reid Dobell
1837 - 1902
Elizabeth Kane
1836 - 1909
James Eccles
1838 - 1915
L. John Nuttall
1834 - 1905
Daniel Willis James
1832 - 1907
W. M. Hodgkins
1833 - 1898
James Allanson Picton
1832 - 1910
George Kerferd
1831 - 1889
Alfred Stowell Jones
1832 - 1920
John Roberts (Flint MP)
1835 - 1894
Thomas William Worsdell
1838 - 1916
John Hulley
1832 - 1875
Arthur Forwood
1836 - 1898
Edmund Kirby
1838 - 1920
William Macrorie
1831 - 1905
Robert Murray Smith
1831 - 1921
William Earle (British Army officer)
1833 - 1885
Michael Verdon
1838 - 1918
Robert Duncan Wilmot Jr.
1837 - 1920
Butler Cole Aspinall
1830 - 1875
Henry Brunner
1838 - 1916
Benjamin Lloyd
Born 1839
Fanny Calder
1838 - 1923
Robert Brindle
1837 - 1916
Ephraim Zox
1837 - 1899
Thomas Garrett (Australian politician)
1830 - 1891
Ford North
1830 - 1913
Henry Stanley Newman
1837 - 1912
Nathaniel Levi
1830 - 1908
Abraham Luya
1837 - 1899
Francis James Roscoe
1831 - 1878
Barton Grindrod
1834 - 1895